Paul Krugman | The New York Review of Books

Covid’s Economic Mutations

The argument of Adam Tooze and Bruno Maçães’s recent books, that the pandemic was best handled by societies with top-down social control, hasn’t aged well.

Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World’s Economy

by Adam Tooze

Geopolitics for the End Time: From the Pandemic to the Climate Crisis

by Bruno Maçães

March 10, 2022 issue

Money: The Brave New Uncertainty of Mervyn King

On ‘The End of Alchemy: Money, Banking, and the Future of the Global Economy’

The End of Alchemy: Money, Banking, and the Future of the Global Economy

by Mervyn King

July 14, 2016 issue

Challenging the Oligarchy

Robert Reich’s ‘Saving Capitalism’

Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few

by Robert B. Reich

December 17, 2015 issue

Why Weren’t Alarm Bells Ringing?

Prediction is hard, but this doesn’t let our economic policy elite off the hook

The Shifts and the Shocks: What We’ve Learned—and Have Still to Learn—from the Financial Crisis

by Martin Wolf

October 23, 2014 issue

Does He Pass the Test?

‘Stress Test: Reflections on Financial Crises’ by Timothy Geithner

Stress Test: Reflections on Financial Crises

by Timothy F. Geithner

July 10, 2014 issue

The New Gilded Age

Thomas Piketty’s ‘Capital in the Twenty-First Century’

Capital in the Twenty-First Century

by Thomas Piketty, translated from the French by Arthur Goldhammer

May 8, 2014 issue

Gambling with Civilization

William Nordhaus’s ‘The Climate Casino’

The Climate Casino: Risk, Uncertainty, and Economics for a Warming World

by William D. Nordhaus

November 7, 2013 issue

The Debate Over Public Debt

August 15, 2013 issue

The False Claims for Austerity

Why did the austerians get such a powerful grip on elite opinion in the first place?

The Alchemists: Three Central Bankers and a World on Fire

by Neil Irwin

Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea

by Mark Blyth

The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America

by David A. Stockman

June 6, 2013 issue

Letter

Kenneth Rogoff

The Debate Over Public Debt

August 15, 2013 issue

Getting Away with It

How did Wall Street come to dominate Obama’s economic policy so completely?

The Escape Artists: How Obama’s Team Fumbled the Recovery

by Noam Scheiber

Pity the Billionaire: The Hard-Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right

by Thomas Frank

The Age of Austerity: How Scarcity Will Remake American Politics

by Thomas Byrne Edsall

July 12, 2012 issue

The Greek Mess

Following the election of a pro-bailout party in Greece on June 17, the new Greek government being formed this week will try once more to negotiate a solution to its intractable debt crisis that will keep it in the eurozone. But how did Greece get into this situation in the first place? Are other countries at risk of falling into the same predicament?

June 20, 2012